Man gets 37 years for sexual assaults of UD students in 2006

8:54 PM,
Jan. 21, 2014

John Paul Thomas

Written by

Sean O?Sullivan
The News Journal

A Delaware native and Army veteran who had been living in Louisiana has been sentenced to 37 years for a string of sexual assaults targeting University of Delaware co-eds in 2006.

John Paul Thomas, 30, who was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden on Friday, will be serving his Delaware sentence on top of a 12-year sentence he received in Louisiana for aggravated burglary and attempted forcible rape. This means Thomas will almost be 80 when he is released.

In Sept. 2010, DNA evidence collected from Thomas in Louisiana linked him to the string of sexual assaults in Newark. ...